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SECT. 4. The Selectmen shall annually appoint three or more Police Officers, pursuant to Public Statutes, Chap. 27, Sect. 85,
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who, in addition to their other duties required by the laws of the Commonwealth, shall make complaints and carry into execution any judgments for violation of these By-Laws, excepting those relating to truancy.
SECT. 5. The Selectmen shall annually, not less than three days before the annual meeting, cause to be printed and distrib- uted among the taxpayers of the Town a detailed report of all moneys paid out of the town treasury during the preceding fin- ancial year, with such information and recommendations as they may deem proper, and with detailed estimates of the amounts of money which will be required for the current financial year. The report of the Auditors and of the School Committee, also the record of the Town Meetings held during the preceding year, and an abstract of the Births, Marriages, and Deaths, to be fur- nished by the Town Clerk, shall also be printed annually with the Selectmen's Report. Each decennial valuation of estates made by the Assessors, or an abstract thereof, together with a list of poll-tax payers, shall be printed with the Selectmen's Report for the next year after the same shall be made.
SECT. 6. The Board of Highway Surveyors shall annually, in the month of March, appoint a Superintendent of Streets, and they shall keep a record of their official acts, and an account of receipts and expenditures. All specific repairs of streets or bridges, all contracts for making or repairing the same, and all bills for the same shall be authorized or approved by a majority of the Board. The Superintendent shall annually, in March or April, inspect the streets and bridges of the town to determine their condition in respect to safety, to the existence of obstruc- tions and encroachments, and need of repair. He shall make a report to the town annually, on or before February 1, to be printed with the Selectmen's Report, specifying the work which has been done, and the amounts which have been expended on each street, with an estimate of the appropriation required for highways the succeeding year.
SECT. 7. Notice of intention to lay out, alter or discontinue a town way, in addition to the notice required by the Public Statutes, shall be given by publication in any newspaper pub- lished in Norwood before the day of hearing.
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SECT. S. Whenever a town way is laid out or altered, a plan thereof shall be made and filed in the Town Clerk's office, with the location thereof, and it shall be the duty of the Town Clerk to keep a book of records for the sole purpose of recording the location of all highways and town ways within the town, with an index thereto.
SECT. 9. The Selectmen shall appoint annually, in the month of April, three suitable persons to be Cemetery Commissioners, who shall hold their offices until their successors are appointed. They shall have the care, superintendence and management of the public cemeteries in the town, and may make rules and regu- lations concerning the same, which the Board of Health are not authorized by law to make, and which are not repugnant to any law of the Commonwealth, or in contravention of any vote of the Town. They shall cause to be prosecuted all offences enumer- ated in Public Statutes, Chapter 207, Sections 49 and 50, and in any other law relating to the same. All moneys raised by the Town, or hereinafter appropriated for the care, improvement or embellishment of said public cemeteries, shall be expended under their direction. They shall annually, on the first day of Feb- ruary, make up and render a report, in writing, of the condition of the cemeteries, with an itemized account of receipts and expenditures, and estimates of amounts of appropriations required for the coming year, which report shall be printed in the Annual Report of Town Officers.
ARTICLE III.
FINANCIAL REGULATIONS.
SECTION 1. The financial year shall begin with the first day of February in each year, and end with the last day of January following.
SECT. 2. No money shall be paid from the treasury, except the State and county taxes, without a warrant therefor, signed by a majority of the Selectmen.
SECT. 3. The assessment of taxes shall be completed, and the
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tax list and warrant shall be committed to the Collector on or before the first day of August in said year.
SECT. 4. Taxes assessed in each year shall be payable on or before the first day of November in the same year, and on all such taxes as shall not be paid on or before the said first day of November, interest at the rate of six (6) per cent. per year shall be charged and collected from said first day of November till the tax is paid, and the Collector shall immediately, after the first day of January in each year, exert all the powers vested in him by law for the collection of unpaid taxes.
SECT. 5. The Collector shall cause to be printed upon the tax bill the foregoing by-law.
SECT. 6. All persons who may be assessed a poll tax only shall pay the same on demand.
SECT. 7. No Town Officer having the control of the expendi- ture of the public money, shall incur any debt or obligation on account of the Town, in any department, beyond the amount appropriated therefor by the Town; and no amount, for any department, beyond the sum appropriated, shall be drawn from the town treasury until the same is sanctioned and approved by the Town.
SECT. 8. In all accounts brought against the Town for settle- ment, the Selectmen shall require each iteni of indebtedness to be clearly stated before their acceptance of the same.
SECT. 9. There shall be chosen at the annual meeting three Auditors of accounts, who shall audit the accounts of the Treas- urer and Collector; and for this purpose they shall have access to and examine all accounts kept by the Selectmen, School Com- mittee, Engineers of the Fire Department, and all other Town Officers. They shall have power to employ the assistance of an expert accountant when they think proper.
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ARTICLE IV.
TRUANCY.
SECTION 1. All habitual truants residing in this town, and children between the ages of seven and fifteen years, who may be found wandering about in the streets or public places of said town, and having no lawful occupation or business, not attending school, and growing up in ignorance, shall be committed to the union truant school established by the county commissioners of this county and other counties.
SECT. 2. The School Committee shall annually appoint and fix the compensation of two suitable persons to be Truant Offi- cers, who shall perform the duties required by the provisions of Public Statutes, Chapter 48.
SECT. 3. It shall be the duty of any Truant Officer, before making any complaint according to law, to notify the parent or guardian of any such child as is described in the first section of this article, if he has any, of the offence, and if satisfactory pledges shall be given to the Truant Officer for the future restraint and reformation of such child, he may in his discretion forbear to make or prosecute such complaint, so long as such pledges shall be faithfully kept.
SECT. 4. The Truant Officers shall keep a record of their official acts, and make an annual report thereof to the School Committee, who shall publish the same in their annual report.
ARTICLE V.
POLICE REGULATIONS.
SECTION 1. The Selectmen, before granting a written permis- sion to move a building in any public street or way in the town, under Public Statutes, Chapter 53, Sect. 17, shall ascertain if the destruction or injury of any shade or ornamental tree, shrub, or any fixture of ornament or utility, standing in a street, way, or enclosure adjoining the same, will be caused thereby, and if
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in such case, in the opinion of the Selectmen, such permission should be granted, they may require the person applying to give satisfactory security to any person owning such trees, shrubs, or fixtures, to indemnify him for any damage caused as aforesaid, before giving such permission.
SECT. 2. Whoever shall pasture any cattle, goats or other animals, either with or without a keeper, upon any street or way in the town, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty dollars for each violation hereof.
SECT. 3. Whoever shall affix with paste or other adhesive substance any bill, placard, or notice, or shall write any figures, words, or devices, to or upon a building, fence or wall in the town, where the owner or occupant shall have posted a notice forbidding the same, or shall post any bill, placard, or notice on any tree in a public street or town way, shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than one dollar nor more than ten dollars for each offence.
SECT. 4. Whoever shall wilfully or maliciously deface or tear down any bill, placard, or notice, posted for a lawful purpose, except the same be affixed to premises owned by him or under his control, shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than one dollar nor more than ten dollars for each offence.
SECT. 5. Whoever shall ride any horse, or drive any horse or horses attached to a vehicle of any description, in or upon any street or way for public travel, at such an immoderate rate of speed as to endanger or expose to injury or inconvenience any person standing, walking, or riding therein, shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than five dollars nor more than twenty dollars for each offence.
SECT. 6. Whoever shall be or remain upon any doorstep, portico or other projection from any house or building, or upon any wall or fence on or near any street or public place, after being requested by any occupant of the premises or by any con- stable or police officer to remove therefrom, shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than one dollar nor more than ten dollars for each offence.
SECT. 7. Whoever shall coast upon any sled or sleds upon
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any sidewalk, or in any street or public place, except upon such streets or places as the Selectmen may by public notice desig- nate for such purpose, shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than one dollar nor more than five dollars for each offence.
SECT. 8. Whoever, by any means or in any manner, shall wilfully frighten any horse, or play at any game in which a ball is used, or shoot with bows and arrows, or throw stones or other missiles, in any street or on any sidewalk, shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than one dollar nor more than ten dollars for each offence.
SECT. 9. Whoever shall drive any horse, cattle or swine, or permit any horse, cattle or swine under his care to go upon or over any sidewalk, or hitch his horse to any ornamental tree standing or growing upon any sidewalk, or suffer any horse to remain hitched across any sidewalk, or draw or propel any hand- cart over any sidewalk, so as thereby to cause any injury either to person or property of others, or to obstruct the safe and con- venient passing of persons lawfully using the same, shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than one dollar nor more than ten dollars for each offence.
SECT. 10. Whoever shall throw or drop in or upon any foot- path, sidewalk or highway in the town, any piece of wire, nail, metal or mineral, that might or would be a source of annoyance or danger to anyone lawfully passing over or using such path, walk or way, or shall behave in an indecent or disorderly man- ner, or use indecent, profane or insulting language in any public place or on any street or sidewalk in the town, to the annoyance or disturbance of any person there being or passing in a peace- able manner, shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than five dol- lars nor more than ten dollars for each offence.
SECT. 11. Whoever, unless by leave of the Town Officers, having charge of the repairs of the highways, shall throw or deposit in any street, or on any sidewalk, ashes, dirt, rubbish or filth of any kind, or any animal or vegetable substance, shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than one dollar nor more than ten dollars for each offence.
SECT. 12. Whoever shall suffer any wood or coal, or any cart
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or wagon, to remain within the limits of a street or upon any sidewalk so as in any manner to obstruct the travel thereon, or for more than twenty-four hours after he has been notified by the Superintendent of Streets or any Constable or Police Officer to remove the same, shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than one dollar, and not more than ten dollars for each offence.
SECT. 13. Whoever shall make any indecent figures or write any indecent or obscene words upon any fence, building or struc- ture in any public place, or wantonly expose his naked person to the view of other persons then and there passing or being in any street or public place, or in or near any dwelling house, or commit a nuisance upon any sidewalk, or against any tree, build- ing or structure adjoining the same, shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than five dollars, nor more than twenty dollars, for each offence.
ARTICLE VI.
SECTION 1. These By-Laws may be amended at any annual town meeting, an article or articles for that purpose having been inserted in the warrant for such meeting.
SECT. 2. All forfeitures under any of the By-Laws of the town shall be recovered by complaint, and shall inure to the use of the Town of Norwood.
SECT. 3. No person shall be prosecuted or tried for any breach of the provisions of any By-Law of the town, unless the com- plaint for the same shall be made within six months from the time of committing such breach.
SECT. 4. These By-Laws shall take effect from and after their approval by the Superior Court, and all By-Laws heretofore adopted by the Town are hereby repealed.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
NORFOLK, SS.
SUPERIOR COURT.
Upon the petition of Edgar L. Bigelow, Town Clerk, praying that certain By-Laws, adopted at a meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Norwood, on the eleventh day of April, A.D. 1898, a copy of said By-Laws being hereto annexed:
I certify that on the twenty-third day of May, A.D. 1898, said By-Laws were approved by the Court, and with such approval have been duly entered and recorded in the office of the Clerk of Courts for said County of Norfolk.
THE SUPERIOR COURT.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court, this twenty-fifth day of May, A.D. 1898.
R. B. WORTHINGTON,
Assistant Clerk.
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